Across
- 6. Drawings or photographs that help explain the text
- 8. claim a statement that can be verified, independently and objectively with facts, personal observations, reliable sources, or an expert's findings (may use a statistic or number--there was a 20 percent increase in enrollment this year at our school)
- 9. Sometimes authors overstate the facts leading to a false of importance. (We will all be doomed if we don't take a stand now!) (This is a onetime offer. You can't get this price after today.) Key words: always, never, everyone
- 12. a story written to be performed by actors; a play
- 13. person point of view/ Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We"
- 14. language/ language that means more than what it says on the surface; not actual or literal meaning
- 17. text This type of text informs or instructs the reader.
- 19. assumption the fallacy of an idea or a principle that is untrue (Example: holding frogs give people warts)
- 21. an expression with a meaning different from the literal meaning of the individual words (It's raining cats and dogs!)
- 23. action point in a story where the conflict begins to be resolved (things start to wind down and story comes to an end)
- 24. when a portion of the story goes back in time
Down
- 1. a character trait used to describe someone who doesn't give up easily
- 2. influencing strongly
- 3. fiction/ fiction that involves an event in history. Contains historical facts, events, or people, but is not true.
- 4. a conversation between characters set off by quotation marks (what character is saying)
- 5. The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot
- 7. a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
- 10. the beginning of the story--introduces the setting, characters, and the problem
- 11. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
- 15. elaborate exaggeration (Example: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse OR I walked a million miles.)
- 16. A drawing that shows or explains something...usually includes labels and captions.
- 18. infer to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented (put clue together with your good brain)
- 20. a collection of word pictures that appeal to the reader's senses; uses devices such as metaphor, simile, etc.
- 22. conclusions combining several pieces of information to make an inference--to use details, facts, and evidence from a text to come to a new understanding about a topic or idea (infer, inference)